Loose Moose Cafe

Delicious Place I am glad and to find a place wth this type of menu buffalo hamburger was amazing, definitely love it my family really like it please, excellent customer service the only thing I didn’t like much is the location, I was expecting a little bigger place but is not a big deal, only think they didn’t get 5 stars is because the clam chowder could it be better. Other then that reardeer hot dog was really good too. I highly recommend this place.

We dropped in here for lunch during a visit to Fairbanks recently. This place is a hole in the wall, but fine enough. My husband had the reindeer sausage which he very much enjoyed and I had the halibut sandwich which was also very good. No complaints about this shop at all.
Not sure if we would go back on a future visit to the city, but only because the menu is pretty small and we didn’t feel like we missed out on anything. It’s definitely a solid spot for a lunch, though. Free wifi was a nice plus while we mapped out the rest of our day. Also there is a decent selection of meats, jerkys, mustards, and other such things that you can buy for home.
Would recommend this spot to anyone looking for a quick and relaxing lunch in town.

Buffalo chili. Reindeer sausage. Buffalo beef burger.
Repeat.
This is a very decent eats. Casual, yes, but I had no patience for Cookie Jar’s long wait.
It’s laid back. It gets locals and tourists, and it sells reindeer sausages and other perishable goods on the side. At the counter, get yourself a reindeer jerky or salmon jerky.
I particularly enjoyed the buffalo chili. It was 30 degrees out with snow not melting. Perfect chili eating weather. I was browsing FB and reading Whatsapp messages from friends doing the Hardly Strictly in shorts. Darn it, I’ve managed to miss this event three years in a row. But then again, when they were doing their food truck line up, I one-​upped them with a reindeer polish dog, chased down with a bowl of buffalo chili.

Amazing food, amazing service. Definitely going. Back on my next rio to Fairbanks! That is if they are still open. For sale sign posted in the restaurant!

I really can’t say enough good things about this place. It may llok like just a burger joint but it is amazing. Everything I go there I’m blown away by how good and consistent my food is. Great place to eat great food and nice owners.

Good hot Alaskan Burgers, Caribou steaks, and Buffalo Burgers.
If you are looking for a great burger from a mom and pop shop this is a great destination for you to visit. It is a clean, laidback, and fun atmosphere. I ordered the signature burger (a mix of buffalo, pork, and beef patty) with pepperjack cheese. It came hot with flaky fries: overall was on point.
Great customer service and a large variety of burger toppings. I recommend giving it a try, and get the housemade honey mustard.

The Buffalo burger with Bacon is delicious and filling! The fries are delicious as well, and we’re always full and happy when we leave. The staff is always welcoming and very friendly. We always feel comfortable and happy when we visit! The prices are great as well, and they never skimp. The packaged sausages and honey mustard are well worth buying and trying. A wonderful café that I would recommend to anyone and will continue to visit & enjoy in the future!

With all of the great reviews, we couldn’t wait to try a burger at the Loose Moose Café. The woman behind the counter was very nice, informative and patient with us while we tried to decide what to get. My partner decided to get the Signature Burger which is a combination of beef, pork and buffalo. There is no cheddar cheese choice so she got american cheese which was the least foul to her from the choices of american, swiss and pepper jack. I got the buffalo burger with sautéed mushrooms and swiss with a side of sweet potato fries whereas my partner got the regular fries. I loved my burger. I’ve always liked buffalo as a substitute for beef. It was a bit dry but the mushrooms really helped to give it some extra moisture and the swiss cheese was dripping off of it. I added some horseradish mayo for a little kick. I really liked it and the fries were crisp and yummy. My partner, however, hated her burger. I could tell right away from the look and smell of the burger that it wasn’t good. It had the consistency of meatloaf, probably from the combination of meats but also had some sort of spice in it that made it quite pungent. She barely ate half it but finished her fries. And because I put horseradish on my burger, she wouldn’t share it with me. She’s certain she doesn’t want to return to the Loose Moose Café but I’m urging her to try other items on the menu since my burger was so good.

Very delicious food here. I really like their sauce bar where they have everything including banana pepper and jalapeño. We tried their buffalo burger and steak Alaska. They are both good.

Casual, «order at the counter» place with reasonable prices and a variety of unique meat choices. The reindeer polish dog and caribou steak patty were both amazing. I also had the bison chili which was tasty with large chunks of buffalo meat. The service was quick and staff was cheerful and polite. The café’ also sells most of their meats frozen for home cooking and has a selection of jerky, and condiments to buy for home. I will be coming back for sure!

Love the buffalo burger here, get a good deal for the value, and I love the condiment bar they have. The workers are also generally very friendly

Gets 4 stars because it is definitely authentic for Alaska. Got the Buffalo burger and can understand why we hunted them to near extinction. However buffalo isn’t terribly different than regular beef. The Honey Mustard made by the owner was also very good. Good choice of fixin’s. Ambiance was kind of standard, a few moose items.
The Winter Ox jerky I was not impressed with and was a waste of $ 2. It tastes just like beef, which is the main ingredient. The Venison jerky was good though. Still mostly beef.
I will still come back to try the caribou steak however.
They should consider having multiple different meats in a sampler tray to «Taste Alaska»

Totally hand prepared buffalo burger. I’m a sweet potato fan and the fries were perfect. Dipped in their honey mustard was an unexpected delight. Definitely a stop everytime I’m in Fairbanks.

Classic burger. Fun toppings and friendly service. If I’m ever back in the area, I will be returning.
Got the signature burger, fries and chicken sandwich. All fantastic and filling.
Service was very friendly and polite.

Looking for a place to find a variety of gamey meats? If in Fairbanks Alaska, look no further, where you can find a plethora of jerkys and meats. Cooked meals available from buffalo burger, caribou sandwich, buffalo bratwurst, and more. If you are from out of town and looking for some uniqueness, try this place out.

For the tourists looking to check off «something local» or «game meat» from their Alaskan adventures checklist, this is the spot for you. But gourmet burgers this certainly isn’t. This is definitely one of those hole in the wall burger joints that can make tourists feel like locals just for stepping foot in it, although I get a feeling that locals would scoff at this place. The food is middling at best and it’s obvious that their target clientele are tourists looking for «local» food. Hey, it works. I went here after all.
I tried the caribou sandwich and the buffalo patty burger. If it weren’t for the kitsch factor of getting to say that I’ve now eaten buffalo and caribou while in Alaska, this place would get 3 stars. However, given that I’m a tourist after all and couldn’t easily find another place that would make me feel like an Alaskan adventurer without having to shoot the game myself, this place gets that extra star. Oh, and they have packaged reindeer, buffalo, and caribou meats that you can send or bring back to the folks at home to show them how much of an Alaskan adventurer you were.

Occasionally my fellow Unilocalers do me wrong. Loose Moose Café marks one of the few times I questioned the sanity of my fellow Unilocalers. After the 7 hour drive from Anchorage, we were ravenous upon our arrival in town on Christmas Eve Day. I’m unfamiliar with Fairbanks, so I figured I’d look on Unilocal find a place with a high rating that was actually open, and seek it out. The location of this place should have been enough to make me give up. Even though its on Airport Road, you can’t actually access it from that road. You have to go way out of your way to access what is essentially the back driveway to the «Café.» And oh yes, I put the word café in air quotes, cause their ain’t a damn thing café-​y about this joint. This place is a dive. Mind you, I like dives sometimes, especially when they’re authentic, cheap and tasty. This place was none of those things. There was no old skool Americana-​greasy spoon charm here. Nor was the food tasty or inexpensive/​
Capital BLECH!!!
Ambiance is crapola. But I can deal with crappy ambiance if the food is slammin. But for the love of gawd, noooooooo, my reindeer burger was something out of a nightmare. First off, since when is a «burger» shaped long ways and placed on a 6 inch roll. WTF? But this I could forgive if it was tasty. But it’s not. It has the worst texture I’ve even had in a burger. It kinda had the texture of sausage actually. But the taste was nauseating. I mean literally, there I was RAVENOUS and I couldn’t even choke it down. I love reindeer burgers. I drive 3 hours on a whim to Talkeentna just for a good reindeer burger often. But this, NO THANK YOU. BLECH!!!
So I stared at my sad looking, 10+ dollar uneaten reindeer «burger» in this gross little «café» and tried to choke down the greasy sweet potato fries. They too made me nauseas, so I just quit eating altogether. My honey rated his burger ok and his chili excellent. But he too was really put off by the ambiance and prices. N.E.V.E.R. A.G.A.I.N. Capital AVOID THIS PLACE Exclamation Point!!!

I had the ‘signature’ burger, added grilled onions and a side of fries. 5 stars if they had some homemade buns instead of the standard grocery store ones.
I will be back again to try the jalapeño burger once I wake up from this nap.

Okay, if you like the order at the counter kind of places you may give this a 5 star. The food was great and the people working there were also great. I wasn’t crazy about having to put my own tomatoes, onions, and condiments on my Caribou burger as when these things are out where EVERYONE can get their fingers in them I’m skeptical.
The burger was good and the sweet potato fries are wonderful with the honey mustard. Prices are reasonable and they even have caned reindeer you can take home for Christmas presents.
I will be back to try some of the other meats you just can’t get any place else.

I was recommended and taken to this place by one of the cab drivers. I’m so glad I went. I wanted to go to a place I could get some local fair and meat. The menu of this café has some good local meat, caribou, reindeer, etc.
The lady behind the register and in the kitchen are absolute darlings. They were nice, patient, and very helpful. I also managed to buy some caribou and reindeer sausage to bring home and some canned salmon and reindeer meat. They also have sweet mustard and other things that make good souvenirs.
Adjacent to the café is a bar that is good too. Only that it is a smoking bar.
I highly recommend this place and would love to come back.

Wie hier in der Gegend meistens, gibt es Abzug fürs Ambiente. Die Burger waren aber frisch und sehr lecker, die Fries auch. Man bekommt den Burger offen und kann dan selber noch nach Belieben Salat, Gurken, Saucen und viele anderen Sachen nachlegen. #nom!